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America 250 In Concert with the RI Philharmonic

Concert Program

Lee Mills, Conductor
Michael Maliakel, Soloist
Joe Wilson Jr., Narrator

  • Star Spangled Banner, John Stafford Smith & Walter Damrosch
  • Celebration Overture, Peter Boyer
  • “Hoe Down” from Rodeo, Aaron Copland
  • Variations on a Shaker Melody, Arron Copland
  • American Salute. Morton Gould
  • Ashokan Farewell, Jay Ungar
  • “Ring Shout” from Four Black American Dances, Carlos Simon
  • “Mambo” from Overture to West Side Story (arr. Maurice Peress) Overture to Candide, Leonard Bernstein
  • “A Simple Song” from Mass, Leonard Bernstein (arr. Robert Longfield)
  • Lincoln Portrait, Aaron Copland
  • “Feeling Good” (from Roar of the Greasepaint – Smell of the Crowd), Anthony Newley & Leslie Bricusse (arr. Mat Amy)
  • “An American Tune”, Paul Simon (arr. Patrick Sheehan)
  • “America, the Beautiful”, Bates/Ward (arr. Ray Charles)
  • “Stars & Stripes Forever” [Encore], John Philip Sousa